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Arguments that Count

Author : Rebecca Slayton
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262549573
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Arguments that Count written by Rebecca Slayton and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How differing assessments of risk by physicists and computer scientists have influenced public debate over nuclear defense. In a rapidly changing world, we rely upon experts to assess the promise and risks of new technology. But how do these experts make sense of a highly uncertain future? In Arguments that Count, Rebecca Slayton offers an important new perspective. Drawing on new historical documents and interviews as well as perspectives in science and technology studies, she provides an original account of how scientists came to terms with the unprecedented threat of nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). She compares how two different professional communities—physicists and computer scientists—constructed arguments about the risks of missile defense, and how these arguments changed over time. Slayton shows that our understanding of technological risks is shaped by disciplinary repertoires—the codified knowledge and mathematical rules that experts use to frame new challenges. And, significantly, a new repertoire can bring long-neglected risks into clear view. In the 1950s, scientists recognized that high-speed computers would be needed to cope with the unprecedented speed of ICBMs. But the nation's elite science advisors had no way to analyze the risks of computers so used physics to assess what they could: radar and missile performance. Only decades later, after establishing computing as a science, were advisors able to analyze authoritatively the risks associated with complex software—most notably, the risk of a catastrophic failure. As we continue to confront new threats, including that of cyber attack, Slayton offers valuable insight into how different kinds of expertise can limit or expand our capacity to address novel technological risks.

Proofs that Really Count

Author : Arthur T. Benjamin
Publisher : American Mathematical Society
ISBN 13 : 1470472597
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Proofs that Really Count written by Arthur T. Benjamin and published by American Mathematical Society. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematics is the science of patterns, and mathematicians attempt to understand these patterns and discover new ones using a variety of tools. In Proofs That Really Count, award-winning math professors Arthur Benjamin and Jennifer Quinn demonstrate that many number patterns, even very complex ones, can be understood by simple counting arguments. The book emphasizes numbers that are often not thought of as numbers that count: Fibonacci Numbers, Lucas Numbers, Continued Fractions, and Harmonic Numbers, to name a few. Numerous hints and references are given for all chapter exercises and many chapters end with a list of identities in need of combinatorial proof. The extensive appendix of identities will be a valuable resource. This book should appeal to readers of all levels, from high school math students to professional mathematicians.

300 Arguments

Author : Sarah Manguso
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979599
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book 300 Arguments written by Sarah Manguso and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and exhilarating sequence of aphorisms from one of our greatest essayists There will come a time when people decide you’ve had enough of your grief, and they’ll try to take it away from you. Bad art is from no one to no one. Am I happy? Damned if I know, but give me a few minutes and I’ll tell you whether you are. Thank heaven I don’t have my friends’ problems. But sometimes I notice an expression on one of their faces that I recognize as secret gratitude. I read sad stories to inoculate myself against grief. I watch action movies to identify with the quick-witted heroes. Both the same fantasy: I’ll escape the worst of it. —from 300 Arguments A “Proustian minimalist on the order of Lydia Davis” (Kirkus Reviews), Sarah Manguso is one of the finest literary artists at work today. To read her work is to witness acrobatic acts of compression in the service of extraordinary psychological and spiritual insight. 300 Arguments, a foray into the frontier of contemporary nonfiction writing, is at first glance a group of unrelated aphorisms. But, as in the work of David Markson, the pieces reveal themselves as a masterful arrangement that steadily gathers power. Manguso’s arguments about desire, ambition, relationships, and failure are pithy, unsentimental, and defiant, and they add up to an unexpected and renegade wisdom literature.

Arguments and Reason-Giving

Author : Matthew W McKeon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197751636
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book Arguments and Reason-Giving written by Matthew W McKeon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguments figure in our everyday practices of giving reasons. For example, we use arguments to advance reasons to explain why we believe or did something, to justify our beliefs or actions, to persuade others to do or to believe something, and to advance reasons to worry or to fear that something is true. This book is about our uses of arguments to advance their premises as reasons for believing their conclusions, i.e., as reasons for believing that their conclusions are true. What, exactly, is involved when you successfully use an argument to advance the premises as reasons for believing the conclusion? Philosopher Matthew W. McKeon suggests there is more involved than one might think.

Two Dozen (or so) Arguments for God

Author : Jerry Walls
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190842237
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Two Dozen (or so) Arguments for God written by Jerry Walls and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years ago, Alvin Plantinga gave a lecture called "Two Dozen (or so) Theistic Arguments," which served as an underground inspiration for two generations of scholars and students. In it, he proposed a number of novel and creative arguments for the existence of God which have yet to receive the attention they deserve. In Two Dozen (or so) Arguments for God, each of Plantinga's original suggestions, many of which he only briefly sketched, is developed in detail by a wide variety of accomplished scholars. The authors look to metaphysics, epistemology, semantics, ethics, aesthetics, and beyond, finding evidence for God in almost every dimension of reality. Those arguments new to natural theology are more fully developed, and well-known arguments are given new life. Not only does this collection present ground-breaking research, but it lays the foundations for research projects for years to come.

The Making of Arguments

Author : John Hays Gardiner
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Arguments written by John Hays Gardiner and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1912 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Active Directory

Author : Joe Richards
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 0596519567
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (965 download)

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Download or read book Active Directory written by Joe Richards and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2006-01-19 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working with Microsoft's network directory service for the first time can be a headache for system and network administrators, IT professionals, technical project managers, and programmers alike. This authoritative guide is meant to relieve that pain. Instead of going through the graphical user interface screen by screen, O'Reilly's bestselling Active Directory tells you how to design, manage, and maintain a small, medium, or enterprise Active Directory infrastructure. Fully updated to cover Active Directory for Windows Server 2003 SP1 and R2, this third edition is full of important updates and corrections. It's perfect for all Active Directory administrators, whether you manage a single server or a global multinational with thousands of servers. Active Directory, 3rd Edition is divided into three parts. Part I introduces much of how Active Directory works, giving you a thorough grounding in its concepts. Some of the topics include Active Directory replication, the schema, application partitions, group policies, and interaction with DNS. Part II details the issues around properly designing the directory infrastructure. Topics include designing the namespace, creating a site topology, designing group policies for locking down client settings, auditing, permissions, backup and recovery, and a look at Microsoft's future direction with Directory Services. Part III covers how to create and manipulate users, groups, printers, and other objects that you may need in your everyday management of Active Directory. If you want a book that lays bare the design and management of an enterprise or departmental Active Directory, then look no further. Active Directory, 3rd Edition will quickly earn its place among the books you don't want to be without.

Good Reasons for Better Arguments

Author : Jerome E. Bickenbach
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 9781551110592
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Good Reasons for Better Arguments written by Jerome E. Bickenbach and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 1996-09-19 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text introduces university students to the philosophical ethos of critical thinking, as well as to the essential skills required to practice it. The authors believe that Critical Thinking should engage students with issues of broader philosophical interest while they develop their skills in reasoning and argumentation. The text is informed throughout by philosophical theory concerning argument and communication—from Aristotle’s recognition of the importance of evaluating argument in terms of its purpose to Habermas’s developing of the concept of communicative rationality. The authors’ treatment of the topic is also sensitive to the importance of language and of situation in shaping arguments, and to the necessity in argument of some interplay between reason and emotion. Unlike many other texts in this area, then, Good Reasons for Better Arguments helps to explain both why argument is important and how the social role of argument plays an important part in determining what counts as a good argument. If this text is distinctive in the extent to which it deals with the theory and the values of critical thinking, it is also noteworthy for the thorough grounding it provides in the skills of deductive and inductive reasoning; the authors present the reader with useful tools for the interpretation, evaluation and construction of arguments. A particular feature is the inclusion of a wide range of exercises, rich with examples that illuminate the practice of argument for the student. Many of the exercises are self testing, with answers provided at the back of the text; others are appropriate for in-class discussion and assignments. Challenging yet accessible, Good Reasons for Better Arguments brings a fresh perspective to an essential subject.

Mill (Arguments of the Philosophers)

Author : Professor John M Skorupski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136866892
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Mill (Arguments of the Philosophers) written by Professor John M Skorupski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Algorithms for Functional Programming

Author : John David Stone
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662579707
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Algorithms for Functional Programming written by John David Stone and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-27 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a variety of widely used algorithms, expressing them in a pure functional programming language to make their structure and operation clearer to readers. In the opening chapter the author introduces the specific notations that constitute the variant of Scheme that he uses. The second chapter introduces many of the simpler and more general patterns available in functional programming. The chapters that follow introduce and explain data structures, sorting, combinatorial constructions, graphs, and sublist search. Throughout the book the author presents the algorithms in a purely functional version of the Scheme programming language, which he makes available on his website. The book is supported with exercises, and it is suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses on programming techniques.

Cosmological Fine-Tuning Arguments

Author : Jason Waller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351725475
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Cosmological Fine-Tuning Arguments written by Jason Waller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the physical constants, initial conditions, or laws of nature in our universe had been even slightly different, then the evolution of life would have been impossible. This observation has led many philosophers and scientists to ask the natural next question: why is our universe so "fine-tuned" for life? The debates around this question are wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary, complicated, technical, and (at times) heated. This study is a comprehensive investigation of these debates and the many metaphysical and epistemological questions raised by cosmological fine-tuning. Waller’s study reaches two significant and controversial conclusions. First, he concludes that the criticisms directed at the "multiverse hypothesis" by theists and at the "theistic hypothesis" by naturalists are largely unsuccessful. Neither of these options can plausibly be excluded. Choosing between them seems to turn on primitive (and so hard to justify) metaphysical intuitions. Second, in order to break the philosophical deadlock, Waller moves the debate from the level of universes to the level of possible worlds. Arguing that possible worlds are also "fine-tuned" in an important and interesting sense, Waller concludes that the only plausible explanation for the fine-tuning of the actual world is to posit the existence of some kind of "God-like-thing."

The Scar of Race

Author : Paul M. Sniderman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674790117
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Scar of Race written by Paul M. Sniderman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines what, precisely, is the clash over race in America in the 1990s and whether it supports the charge of a new racism. It provides an articulation of what has happened and of how racial issues have become entangled with politics - the process of negotiating who gets what through government action - resulting in a politics of race.

Sentence First, Arguments Afterward

Author : Lila Gleitman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197510426
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Sentence First, Arguments Afterward written by Lila Gleitman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sentence First, Arguments Afterward collects the most important papers of Lila Gleitman's career, spanning over 50 years of work. These papers explore the nature of linguistic knowledge in children and adults by asking how children acquire language, how language and thought are related, the nature of concepts, and the role of syntax in shaping the direction of word learning. With an exclusive foreword by Noam Chomsky and an essay by Jeffrey Lidz contextualizing Gleitman's work in the emergence of the field of cognitive science, this book promises to be valuable both for its historical perspective on language and its acquisition and for the lessons it offers to current practitioners.

Posthumanism and Deconstructing Arguments

Author : Kieran O'Halloran
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317223802
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Posthumanism and Deconstructing Arguments written by Kieran O'Halloran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Posthumanism and Deconstructing Arguments: Corpora and Digitally-driven Critical Analysis presents a new and practical approach in Critical Discourse Studies. Providing a data-driven and ethically-based method for the examination of arguments in the public sphere, this ground-breaking book: Highlights how the reader can evaluate arguments from points of view other than their own; Demonstrates how digital tools can be used to generate ‘ethical subjectivities’ from large numbers of dissenting voices on the world-wide-web; Draws on ideas from posthumanist philosophy as well as from Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari for theorising these subjectivities; Showcases a critical deconstructive approach, using different corpus linguistic programs such as AntConc, WMatrix and Sketchengine. Posthumanism and Deconstructing Arguments is essential reading for lecturers and researchers with an interest in critical discourse studies, critical thinking, corpus linguistics and digital humanities.

Specification of Drug Substances and Products

Author : Christopher M. Riley
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0443134677
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Specification of Drug Substances and Products written by Christopher M. Riley and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2024-09-27 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specification of Drug Substances and Drug Products is a fully comprehensive reference on Specification Setting for Pharmaceuticals. There have been several recent developments in the ICH Guidelines, which were not captured in previous editions, notably the new guideline on Development of Analytical Procedure and the revisions to the validation guidelines, and the specification guidelines. This edition contains chapters discussing the unique requirements for the universal critical quality attributes, as well as the specific tests required to characterize and control different types of products, ranging in complexity from small molecules in immediate release oral dosage forms to complex products such as drug-antibody conjugates and mRNA-based products. This substantially expanded revision of the 2nd edition will serve as practical comprehensive reference for scientists, managers, educators, and consultants involved in the development and regulation of pharmaceutical products Presents critical assessment, potential impact, and application of the recent revisions to ICH guidelines on method validation (Q2) (as well as the latest guideline on Analytical Method Development (Q14), and the special regional requirements in non-ICH regions. Addresses comprehensive treatment of the development and validation of analytical methodologies used in the analysis, control, and specification of a variety of different types of dosage forms, ranging from traditional oral solid dosage forms to proteins, nRNA-based drugs, vaccines, and gene therapy. This book will also address drug–device combination products such as digital drug delivery systems, transdermal systems, and inhalation products. Presents detailed treatment of latest statistical approaches, including new approaches to the treatment of validation data method, specification setting, and shelf-life prediction (based on stability data).

Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Networks

Author : Alexey L. Lastovetsky
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470349484
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Networks written by Alexey L. Lastovetsky and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-05-02 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New approaches to parallel computing are being developed that make better use of the heterogeneous cluster architecture Provides a detailed introduction to parallel computing on heterogenous clusters All concepts and algorithms are illustrated with working programs that can be compiled and executed on any cluster The algorithms discussed have practical applications in a range of real-life parallel computing problems, such as the N-body problem, portfolio management, and the modeling of oil extraction

Cosmological Arguments

Author : Michael Almeida
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108647669
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Cosmological Arguments written by Michael Almeida and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Element discusses the structure, content, and evaluation of cosmological arguments. The introductory section investigates features essential to cosmological arguments. Traditionally, cosmological arguments are distinguished by their appeal to change, causation, contingency or objective becoming in the world. But none of these is in fact essential to the formulation of cosmological arguments. Sections 1-3 present a critical discussion of traditional Thomistic, Kalam, and Leibnizian cosmological arguments, noting various advantages and disadvantages of these approaches. Section 4 offers an entirely new approach to the cosmological argument - the approach of theistic modal realism. The proper explananda of cosmological arguments on this approach is not change, causation, contingency or objective becoming in the world. The proper explananda is the totality of metaphysical reality - all actualia and all possibilia. The result is the most compelling and least objectionable version of the cosmological argument.